CEO Virginia Rometty has said that the ever shrinking Big Blue will share technology with Chinese firms and will actively help build China's industry.

Talking in Beijing Rometty was setting out her cunning plan for winning over the Chinese manderines who have got the pip with IBM,

The Chinese are leaning on foreign tech companies to stop using its country as a sweatshop for cheap labour and a huge market for their goods. The want the westerners to stop shutting out local producers and help develop the local technology industry.

Rometty said at the China Development Forum, IBM must help China build its IT industry rather than viewing the country solely as a sales destination or manufacturing base,.

"If you're a country, as China is, of 1.3 billion people you would want an IT industry as well. I think some firms find that perhaps frightening. We, though, at IBM ... find that to be a great opportunity," she said.

Her comments are the clearest acknowledgements to date by a high-ranking foreign technology executive that companies must adopt a different tack if they are to continue in China amid growing political pressure.

Intel is another one which has seen the writing on the wall and is forming alliances with domestic operators, hoping a local partner will make it easier to operate in the increasingly tough environment for foreign businesses.

IBM's sales in China have stabilized after a sharp drop that began in the third quarter of 2013 following Snowden's revelations. The Armonk, New York-based company reported a 1 percent slide in revenue in China during the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with the prior year.

Biggish Blue's new approach allows Chinese companies to build everything from semiconductor chips and servers based on IBM architecture, to the software that runs on those machines.

Last week IBM announced that Suzhou PowerCore Technology will begin producing a version of IBM's Power8 chip to run on Chinese-made servers. Its POWER line of processors is often used for intensive calculations in financial services, where Chinese banks have been required by new government regulations to use more domestic vendors.

It had already announced a series of partnerships with Chinese vendors and now packages its database software with products from Inspur, a server hardware maker and IBM rival, and has also struck agreements with Youyou, a Beijing-based software firm.

Redmond’s management decisions seem to being made by a collection of student dope heads completely out of touch with reality.

We managed to get a transcript of one of their meetings about the next version of Windows which proves our point. Names have been changed to initials to protect the guilty.

A: Hey guys, guys, guys you know that um, blue screen of death thing, which everyone hassles us about. (assorted groans)A: Well I just had a really, really cool idea….B: How cool is it?C: (Giggles) It is so cool that it could chill Ballmer out! (General giggles)A: No, no, guys, guys… yeah you too Sandra… what we do is we name our next version of Windows, Windows Blue. Then everyone would think that Blue Screen was a good thing. C: Or that it was always going to have a Blue Screen of Death.B: Windows Blue (breathes in and slowly exhales) Yeah that is cool – redeeming.C: So what should we put in Windows Blue?A: Well I have been thinking, you know how most people use a desktop to do anything?B: Unless they are using a tablet…C: Or a mobile.A: Well I think it would be really innovative if we got rid of the desktop function completely!C: Hang on, hang on, I have something really important to say about that….. (loud burp) (hysterical laughter)B: I want to add… (farts)(more hysterical laughter)A: Yeah right what do you reckon though?C: About what?A: No desktop on Windows Blue.B: Well as you guys know I am in marketing… (General raspberries) Yeah, all right! I think it might be interesting to try and market windows as the first operating system that no one can actually use since Windows first came out.C: OOOhhh now that is what I call thinking. Cool motto too – what about… “And now an operating system that the whole family can’t use: Windows Blue”A: We could go for the consumer market with “not even your boss could force you to work on our desktop: Windows Blue.”B: Anyone got any kit-kats? I am starving.

What is perhaps the most alarming is all this is pretty true. Almost every magazine in the US is claiming that Microsoft is going to kill of Windows 8 desktop mode in favour of something more like Metro.

Information Week said that Windows Blue tablet-centricism is so pervasive and the ability to modify Control Panel settings which allowed users to shift to the desktop side of the OS is likely to go.

The changes can certainly be justified in the name of convenience but they will also wean users off the more familiar Explorer environment by encouraging them to conduct more of their business in the tablet UI, the magazine wrote.

Extreme Tech added that if you had any lingering doubts about whether Microsoft was trying to kill off the Desktop, here's confirmation.

According to Russian website Almodi.org that managed to snag some screenshots of WD's plans for the next year, it appears that Western Digital wants to bring 5TB drives in both its Green ant the Red Series in Q4 2013.

In addition to the 5TB WD50EFRX Red series and the WD50EZRX in the Green series, the Q3 2013 will also bring 4TB drives in both series. Of course, we are talking about 3.5-inch drives that will feature 64MB of cache and SATA 6Gbps interface.

The slides also do not reveal any info regarding standard 3.5-inch Blue series and 2.5-inch Scorpio line of drives. As you may remember, WD has recently announced a 4TB version in its Black series lineup so 5TB one might come sooner than in the Green or WD Red NAS line.

Nintendo has announced that they will be releasing a blue colored version of their Wii console in a new bundle that will be showing up in time for the holidays. The new bundle will celebrate the upcoming 2012 London Olympics with the title Mario and Sonic at the London 2012.

It is expected to arrive on dealer shelves in North America on November 15th; in Europe they will have to wait till November 18th. The bundle will include the blue colored Wii console, the blue colored Wii Remote Plus, as well as a copy of Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics 2012.

We hear that Nintendo is going to offer additional Wii bundles for the holidays; we don’t have any world yet on what these bundles might be or might include. Nintendo will, however, be pushing the Wii this holiday season as it prepares to move toward the new console next year.

Following the introduction of the Caviar Black series of SATA 6Gbps drives, Western Digital has expanded support for the new speedy standard to cheaper and smaller Caviar Blue drives.

The new Caviar Blue series will be available in 250, 320, 500, 750 and 1000GB capacities, but it will feature less cache than the Black series. The 250, 320 and 500GB models feature 16MB of cache and prices start at just €33, making them the cheapest SATA 6Gbps drives on the market.